Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759851AbZAEAJT (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751867AbZAEAJE (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:09:04 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:41574 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751586AbZAEAJD (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:09:03 -0500 Message-ID: <49614F90.2020904@davidnewall.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:38:48 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Kyle Moffett , Ben Goodger , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linasvepstas@gmail.com, "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" , MentalMooMan , Travis Crump , burdell@iruntheinter.net Subject: Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 References: <3ae3aa420901021125n1153053fsdf2378e7d11abbc0@mail.gmail.com> <20090102210430.49649261@diego-desktop> <495E7849.4030706@shaw.ca> <495F0672.6020708@davidnewall.com> <8752a8760901022237r75d408b3i74c703c8ac2d4597@mail.gmail.com> <496076A9.7030907@davidnewall.com> <4960897D.5030603@davidnewall.com> <122713.1231068940@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <122713.1231068940@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 29 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:33:41 +1030, David Newall said: > > >> I don't understand why such a simple thing was unnecessarily >> complicated. And causing crashes! Ha ha ha or what? A simple addition >> to zoneinfo was (and still is) all that is required. >> > > Something to keep in mind is that the Posix standard does *NOT* say anything > about leap seconds - poke around in a 'struct tm' sometime. > I have poked, decades ago. There's nothing in struct tm that's a problem. > That's why /usr/share/zoneinfo has separate 'posix' and 'right' subdirectories. > > The fun starts when software using the 'right' rules tries to interact with > other software using the Posix rules (quite possibly running on a non-Unixy > system that doesn't even *use* zoneinfo). > > Repeat after me: Not all the world is Linux. But Linux is; and that's what we're discussing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/